John Raftery Tattooing

This is the most recent sheet of designs I’ve painted. I’ll be making prints when the set is done. The dancing girl was done on a visiting Australian. The sword swallower and the elephant were done on Sara Scott who got a bunch of tattoos from me over the last few months.

Here’s a bunch of new ones. I’ve been traveling a lot and neglecting this blog, I’ll be updating more soon.

Devin got this rose from me this week. I’d like to do more like this.

A guy named Matt got this rose for his first tattoo the other day. Never gets old.

I did this wolf dressed as a man on a young lady in San Francisco this weekend. I’ve tattooed this subject before so it was a fun challenge to make this one stand out from the last. Not the easiest spot to photograph but you get the idea. I really enjoyed this convention and can’t wait to go back and see everyone next year!

I’ve been working on this sleeve of roses for Tatiana over the last couple months.

I did this painting of a fairy last night. 11×14″. I’ll have prints of her soon.

Here’s a couple of the tattoos I did at the London convention. The buildings were something I saw walking by the river one morning. Looks like the end of the world.

I did this owl on Dean, he let me do whatever i wanted with the color so it was a lot of fun. The fairy was done a the Rochester convention.

While visiting my folks in California last week I did these tattoos on my dad and sister. The rose was a little tough to photograph since it wraps around the ankle a bit. The eagle painting is from a while ago I just never posted it on here. My dad does some painting of his own, you can see it here.